A Pilot Study of Factors Affecting Student Veterans’ College Choice

Phillip A. Olt; Whitney Whitaker; Seth Kastle; Taylor Kriley

doi:10.21061/jvs.v10i3.570

A Pilot Study of Factors Affecting Student Veterans’ College Choice

Journal of Veterans Studies

Volume 10 (2024): Issue 3

By: Phillip A. Olt , Whitney Whitaker , Seth Kastle and Taylor Kriley

Open Access

|Aug 2024

Abstract

This study considered the factors that student veterans considered when making a choice of where to attend higher education. This report is of results from a survey implemented in a nationwide pilot study. Respondents (N = 111) gave greater weight in college choice to items generally associated with college satisfaction, such as cost, program availability, and supports, over “military friendly”-type marketing. This is of significant importance to those practitioners and institutions serving student veterans, as there is great time and financial cost to many of those military-specific marketing surveys and options.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v10i3.570 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768

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Language: English

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Submitted on: Feb 26, 2024

Accepted on: Jun 24, 2024

Published on: Aug 13, 2024

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